Not a full blown commie, he like many thinking people saw that there were some good things to communism itself, however it had one major design flaw, it forgot to calculate for greed, so no, not a commie, but he did have a bit of a fascination with it

exactly. communism is supposed to be completely equal throughout the country as far as wealth and whatnot. sounds pretty good to me except people that believe in it also seem to be dictators and assholes

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The ultimate goal of communism is world peace, so, where's the harm? A big problem with communism is human nature can't follow the, "Let's all share, let's all be equal" mentality. People want to be better than their neighbor, and if there's only one kind of lawnmower available, what are we going to impress them with?Edit:

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"And Lennon read a book of Marx"

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Yes, I would say that John Lennon was a communist. Don't be tricked by what has occurred with countries like Russia and China. Communism is an absolutely fantastic idea...but the leaders always end up going corrupt. Power isn't always a very good thing.

Communism doesn't work, not just due to greed, but because there are other ways apart from wealth that some people to be superior to others i.e. in love, in appearance, in personality, and in skills. Also, when there are other countries that are capitalist, and you make as much money as you can, and own as much as you can afford, then a lot of people are going to be tempted by that are choose to live there, and so society divides.

As for John Lennon, I think he was just socialist, I doubt he wanted to live in a Communist society.

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Nothing wrong with a bit of communism. In theory at least it's a damn fine form of government.

communism is not a form of government.

people always get that wrong.

i dont think Lennon would actually call himself a communist, but it seems like he probably agreed with at least some communist ideas. honestly, i dont think there is anything wrong with that. some of the ideas that Marx and Engels lay out in the Communist Manifesto sound pretty good.

Communism is a nice thought which hasn't yet worked out well, because people are greedy and propaganda isn't powerful enough to teach them to be satisfied with what you have

I don't think any human will ever be..lacking ambition would mean not wanting to improve, and that would make us all..well..numb. like stuck in where you are, not moving forward getting more and more ingorant as time passes by

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i dont think Lennon would actually call himself a communist, but it seems like he probably agreed with at least some communist ideas. honestly, i dont think there is anything wrong with that. some of the ideas that Marx and Engels lay out in the Communist Manifesto sound pretty good.

The only way I could imagine communism working is if people could get non-monetary benefits for doing harder jobs, but I have no idea what that could be. Everything breaks down to money. Better real estate?

Don't know. But he was definitively socialist.However, Socialism =/= Communism.The Kibtuzim in Israel are Socialists. However, Israel is a capitalist country, and the Kibutzim produce most of the food and milk of Israel.

What people miss with most interpretations of marxist socialism is that Marx was an historical determinist, so that attempts by individuals to precipitate revolution according to marxist theory are anti marxist in effect. Marx believed that the revolutions he talked of (bougeoirse, proletarian) WILL happen, spontaniously, so if he's right, it will, and if not, well, it looks like fukuyama was right after all.

But anyway, socialist ideals = good on paper, bad in current social practice (as already mentioned)